Buckle for sanitary belt



March 5', 1935. Q. A N 1,992,985

BUCKLE FOR SANITARY BELTS Filed Mgroh 27, 1933 Inventor Patented Mar. 5,1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application March 27, 1933, Serial No.663,059 In Canada August 16, 1932 1 Claim.

My invention relates to a buckle made of nickel plated steel, which canbe adopted to any sanitary belt to support the sanitary napkins; it isabsolutely safe, and works easy.

I attain these objects by mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure 1 shows a front view of the buckle in fullopen position;

Figure 2 shows a side View of the buckle in full open position;

Figure 3 shows a front view of the buckle in closed position;

Figure 4 shows a side view of the buckle in closed position; and

Figure 5 shows a side section of a part of the,

buckle in closed position and a side out or section of a sanitary napkinnumeral 4 placed in position in, the buckle.

Similar numerals refer throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing Numeral 1 is a rectangular member of thebuckle, hereinafter referred to as the rectangular member 1, made ofnickel plated steel wire, whereof one side or arm, namely: the one whichcontains the two ends of the wire, is irregular in so far as the wire isbent in light curves as shown, the two ends of the wire forming thisrectangular member 1 are joined together in the centre by means of asmall nickel plated tube numeral 2;

Numeral 3 is a second member of the buckle, hereinafter referred to asthe U shape member 3, of the same width as and attached to the saidrectangular member 1; it is made in U shape of nickel plated steel wire,whereof each of the two ends forms an eyelet in which is introduced asshown the wire composing the said irregular side or arm of the saidrectangular member 1, on which the said U shape member revolves.

Figure 5 shows the operation of the buckle which is as follows:-Eitherend of a sanitary napkin numeral 4 is introduced firstly into the saidrectangular member 1 and next into the said to similar parts U shapemember 3 of the buckle in closed position, then the same end of thesanitary napkin 4 is turned once around the wire forming the base of thesaid U shape member 3 and afterwards introduced once more,- in theopposite direction, in 5 the said rectangular member 1 in such a way sothat it will bear immediately on the inside base of the said rectangularmember 1, and underneath the sanitary napkin 4 as shown.

It will be noted that the inclined bearing portions of the frame member1 are formed by bending the upper ends of the side bars thereof inwardlyand upwardly. These inclined bearing portions are connected to the endsof the top bar by portions which also extend inwardly and upwardly atsharper angles to the vertical than the inclined bearing portions. Itwill be further noted that the inclined bearing portions function tohold the frame members resiliently in gripping position.

It may be remarked that there are many kinds of sanitary belts now onthe market, but they are all provided with safety pins and bindings,therefore I do not claim any such things, but

I claim:

A buckle comprising two wire frame members pivotally connected together,one of said frame members comprising a lower gripping bar, side bars anda top bar, said top bar being formed parallel with the gripping bar forthe greater por- 30 tion of its length, the ends of each of said sidebars adjacent said top bar being bent first inwardly and upwardly toform inclined bearing portions and then further bent inwardly andupwardly at a sharper angle to the vertical than the bearing portions,and then merging with the ends of the top bar, the other frame memberhaving a lower gripping bar and side bars terminating in eyelets, saidbearing portions turning in said eyelets to resiliently hold the framemembers in gripping position.

CLAIRE BEAUDOIN.

